So it's very, very special to be back again. Now, you all know, of course, that here in Ripon, The Republican Party was founded in a meeting in 1854 in the Little White schoolhouse [in Ripon]. and it was founded by people who were opposed to slavery. It was that republican party, the party of Lincoln and Eisenhower, party of Reagan and Bush. (02:19–02:32)
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